The sweet science will set up shop in Bedford County in less than two weeks.

That’s right. The sport of boxing will make a local appearance for the first time in recent memory, when a full card of fights will be held at Jefferson Forest High School’s gymnasium. The big event will take place on Saturday, May 8.

Consultation with the Bedford City/County Museum found that no one could recall the last time (if ever) professional boxing took place in Bedford.

Body Camp Elementary School’s PTA will, once again, have Dancing With the Staff.

According to Kelly Overstreet, who is organizing the event, the idea for the event comes from the TV show Dancing With the Stars. Members of the 5th grade are paired up with members of the staff and this team is taught a dance routine. The PTA sells tickets for the evening when these teams perform and the proceeds fund needs at the school.

A Bedford area woman was recently honored by the Governor’s Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Angela Skarp, advocate manager and independent study coordinator for Bedford’s CASA office, was one of five people from around the Commonwealth to receive the Advisory Board’s Appreciation Award. The other award winners came from Richmond, Winchester, Fairfax and Norfolk. The awards were presented at a ceremony held in Richmond on April 22.

John and Cynthia Ferrante have some friends from South America living with them. They’re wooly, friendly and have faces like little camels.

The Ferrantes raise alpacas on their farm, Otter Peaks Alpacas, in Thaxton. Alpacas are a species of camelid, the family of animals to which camels and llamas belong. Alpacas are domestic animals that have been raised in the Andes mountains for millennia, bred specifically for their thick wool. In the Andes, they graze at altitudes of between 13,000 and 15,000 feet.

Bedford Moose Lodge 1897 officials were not commenting this week about a raid at the lodge by agents with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Thursday.

State agents seized what they allege to be illegal video gaming machines and thousands of dollars from Moose lodges in Bedford and Altavista. Agents with ABC raided the two lodges simultaneously last week after an investigation of more than two months, according to Chris Goodman, agent in charge of the ABC’s Roanoke office. He said a tip led to the investigation.